Meaning they froze to death.
Family members of victims say many of the deaths may have been prevented if they’d known there was a possibility they could lose power for days.
“I don’t think we’d have had as many deaths. I don’t think we’d have had as many accidents or casualties or anything like that if they had prepared us better,” said Nicale Spencer whose 84-year-old grandmother, Mary Gee, died from hypothermia at home on Feb. 16.
Gee’s body was found inside her northeast Houston apartment.
Spencer said she spoke with her grandmother the night before and says at that time, she had power.